Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
03-02-2018, 03:42 PM
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Re. Butchers shop.
Yes Janwin, right again. It was all part of the Central Store complex, the Head Office of stores at The Drift, Red Row and North Broomhill. (I am not sure if it had closed prior to Hadston Co-op...
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
15-01-2014, 09:48 PM
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
04-12-2013, 05:04 PM
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Re: Bookies
That garage was a going concern, certainly until I left Red Row School in 1955. My Grandfather was badly injured in a mining accident and had a three-wheeled invalid chair. He had it serviced at that...
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
26-11-2013, 04:29 PM
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Re: The Willows
.........and the District Nurse, prior to a new house being provided at Hadston.
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
25-11-2013, 10:26 PM
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Re Pit at Red Row
No pit at Red Row Borderlad, but there was a man drift entry just at the east end of The Willows. My memory is lacking any detail really but I did go down that one a couple of times. It was a second...
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
21-11-2013, 05:27 PM
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Re: Red Row picture. (Coquet)
The garage you noted was the garage and store room for Tommy Hetheringtons veg shop, on the corner. I suppose, like the shop, it is still empty.
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
21-11-2013, 05:22 PM
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Re: Red Row picture of Drift road.
The building was Red Row County Primary school. They tried, and failed, to educate me there for four years. In 1955 they released me on the general public and I got a job at Broomhill Colliery. That...
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
15-11-2013, 03:53 PM
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Re; Red Row shops
In early 50s Hetherington's greengrocer was on the corner (Just out of shot on right) The first on right was Martins Bank, later Midlands, then a gents hairdresser, John Chapman (outfitters)which...
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